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Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/06/02/12:24:47

Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 19:18:24 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Patrice GAU <gau AT terre DOT inrets DOT fr>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Long name support in DOS
In-Reply-To: <3572A0F4.5B508185@terre.inrets.fr>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980602191503.20326Q-100000-100000-100000@is>
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Patrice GAU wrote:

> I try to get long name ( more than 8+3 chars ) and I never succeeded.

If you are working in Windows 95 DOS box, set LFN=y in the environment, 
and all DJGPP programs will see long names.

If you are working on plain DOS or Windows 3.X, you cannot have long 
file names.

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